#115: The Priority Test Almost Every Leader Fails | Mindset Coach James Laughlin

What separates good performers from high performers? According to James Laughlin, it comes down to your BS - your belief systems - and most of us are running ones that hold us back. James is a seven-time world champion drummer from Belfast who became one of New Zealand's leading high performance coaches, working with Canterbury Rugby, the NZ Army, the Antarctic programme, business leaders and former Prime Minister Sir John Key. In this episode, he joins the show to unpack what he's learned coaching elite performers across sport, politics, the military and business. We cover the beliefs that quietly shape your results, the BAB model (belief → attitude → behaviour) and why starting with behaviour never sticks, the 66 days it actually takes to build a habit, how to close the gap between knowing what to do and doing it, the three questions James asks every client, why motivation burns out but desire keeps you in the game, what a study of CEOs' diaries revealed about priorities, journaling for people who think journaling is soft, and the decision James made between a Prince Harry event in London and his son's first school production. Connect with James on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslaughlincoaching/ Get James's free High Performance Planner: https://www.jjlaughlin.com/planner 📕 Grab the book 'Habits of High Performers' at any good bookstore or online. +++ Take my new AI rural sales training tool FieldCoach for a 15 day test drive for $1. No subscriptions or contract. Cancel anytime: ⁠https://www.ruralsalessuccess.com/fieldcoachio-welcome⁠ Grab your copy from Amazon⁠ here: https://www.amazon.com.au/365-Days-Rural-Sales-Mastery/dp/B0F1489HH4/ (or join our Facebook Group below to get a free online copy). Want to make more rural sales? Get your FREE copy of my first book “How To Succeed In Rural Sales” ⁠Ebook: www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/ebook Connect with or Follow me on LinkedIn: nz.linkedin.com/in/stjohncraner Subscribe to my weekly rural sales email (which goes out to 3500+ rural sales professionals worldwide) here: bit.ly/3voaPS7 To join our private Facebook Group where we share a ton of free rural sales and lead generation tools almost daily join here: www.facebook.com/groups/285326399207141/ For details on our training programmes you can check out what we do for sales teams with our Rural Sales Success™ programme here (www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/programme-invitation) or for managers with our Rural Sales Manager Mastery™ programme here (www.ruralsalessuccess1.com/programme-invitation) For more on us, what we do and who we work with: www.ruralsalessuccess.com / www.agrarian.co.nz